Player: Gen
Character: Joshua Rosfield
Idea: Hoo boy here we go

The plot I’d like to propose will center around Joshua's transformation into the Nightmare Phoenix, after the last couple of months have driven him into despair and guilt. The goal is to include a bunch of options to promote inclusion for different players, their characters, and different styles of play ranging from introspection to CR building to fight scenes to actual kaiju punching.

Plot Summary:
1. Initial Corruption:

• Joshua falls into despair after losing Clive and Jill. This leads him to recklessly absorb nostilium during June’s event as he seals off the shard of his home and purify the tapirs.


• Tie-in to Eustace’s noctaere plot: Joshua feels immense guilt over Eustace's corruption into a noctaere. In an attempt to help save him, Joshua transforms into the Phoenix for the first time. This transformation weakens him and allows the noctaere growing within him to realize it can manifest as a giant firebird. (Big ol' side note: this is entirely dependent on how that particular plot goes, I can change it as necessary!)

2. Joshua's Disappearance:

This can go one of two ways depending on what works best for the mods

• Joshua either falls into a coma and is kidnapped for experimentation

OR

• He’s taken by a new antagonist looking to use his power for their own machinations


• Either option would occur in Orkili


• I'm also open to anything else that the mods see fit/will work with future game-wide plans


• Regardless of what happens to cause him to go full funky fresh noctaere, to prevent possibly destroying literally everything, Joshua barricades himself in a dreamscape as a last-ditch effort before he succumbs. The dreamscape resembles Rosaria, covered in crystals and plagued by eruptions of fire. This corrupted dreamscape becomes the setting for the plot/event.

3. Player Involvement:

• Prior to entering the dreamscape, characters can hunt for clues to defeating Noctshua which are found in his journals (back in Reverein). These include his noctaere journal, the fairytale storybook, a book about the events from Valisthea, a journal that chronicles happier things in Joshua’s life, and Moss' Journal.

Characters can enter the corrupted Rosaria and can participate in a few different ways:

• They can (in pairs) encounter crystals reflecting four different abstract concepts: love, fulfillment, power, or secrets. Interactions with these crystals can purify or corrupt them based on the characters' emotional journeys and decisions (the results will impact fights/events depending on whether the crystals are purified or tainted).


• They can fight two corrupted egis of Phoenix: Caladrius (healing bird) and Adarna (attack bird), (not official for FF16 lore but I’m taking some creative liberty). Purifying and defeating these egis weakens Noctshua.


• They can fight the Phoenix: exactly what’s written on the tin, (a limited number of) players can fight a nightmare version of the Phoenix. The Phoenix will revive itself upon defeat until a set number of losses.


• Then there’s fighting Noctshua. Depending on what story beat we go with in the middle, to beat him (another limited number of) characters can either slap him with antidote, try to reach him emotionally, or some combination of the two. There’s also kicking his butt.

I have many more details to fill in the gaps (I tried to condense everything down as much as possible). If the plot is approved, I’ll have those details ready to go, although we may have to brainstorm some other specifics. I apologize!!

Date: July/August
As a note, I’d like to add that because of the many moving parts, it may be a good idea to forward date the first half of the plot and have it continue into the next month. That said, if it’s not feasible (and I totally get it!), August may be a good time.
Questions: Do you see why I wanted to make this a PowerPoint Will you forgive me for my shenanigans?